Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
Beginning with InterSystems IRIS 2020.1, the minimum required version for AIX is AIX 7.1 TL4.
The InterSystems IRIS installer will detect if the required IBM XL C filesets are installed before continuing
with the installation.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause shadowing to fail with an access violation. In rare cases, the defect can cause memory corruption, leading to unpredictable behavior.
Note: The defect does not affect mirroring.
This defect affects:
InterSystems has corrected several critical defects that can result in data integrity issues. These defects were identified and corrected within a short time, so InterSystems has simplified the upgrade process by consolidating them into a single package. The effects of encountering these defects may not always be visible. These defects affect InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect, Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare products. All of these defects relate to the application of journal data.
InterSystems recommends that you review this document.
The 2019.3 versions of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available!
These releases are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, with build number 2019.3.0.311.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.3 has many new capabilities including:
The 2019.1.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.1 is now Generally Available!
This release includes maintenance updates in a number of areas, as described in the online documentation here.
It also includes two new features, described in the online documentation here:
The build number for these releases is 2019.1.1.612.0.
The 2019.1.1 versions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health are now Generally Available!
These are maintenance releases in the EM (Extended Maintenance) stream. The changes are reflected in the 2019.1 documentation, which is available online and features a new look including a card-style TOC layout.
The build number for these releases is 2019.1.1.612.0. A full set of kits and containers for both products are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health.
Caché 2018.1.3 and Ensemble 2018.1.3 maintenance releases are now available.
Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.
This is a maintenance release with many updates across a wide variety of areas.
For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the release notes.
This release also adds support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, in addition to the previously supported platforms detailed in the 2018.1 Supported Platforms document.
The build number for this release is 2018.1.3.414.0.
Preview releases are now available for the 2019.4 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!
Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2019.4.0.379.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.4 has many new capabilities including:
InterSystems Atelier has been tested with OpenJDK 8. The InterSystems Eclipse plug-in is currently available for Eclipse Photon (4.8), which requires and works with Java 8.
With the recent release of macOS 10.15, Apple has tightened its control mechanism , called Gatekeeper, so that it now requires executables to be notarized. InterSystems products are not currently supported for use on macOS 10.15 and the executables have not been notarized. (As a reminder, InterSystems products are supported on macOS as a development platform only.)
InterSystems has corrected a defect in applications that use Unicode character 223 (ß). This defect can result in incomplete query results, class compilation errors, and removal of custom SQL privileges.
This problem occurs on systems that are running or have previously run on:
The defect is triggered by data and component names containing Unicode character 223 (ß). In the versions listed above, an uppercase conversion incorrectly maps that character to Unicode character 7838 (ẞ). Applications perform this uppercase conversion using features such as $ZCONVERT and %SQLUPPER.
Problems can occur when accessing data or classes created or modified on a product with a different uppercase conversion than the one currently in use.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that could lead to invalid backups on Windows platforms. The defect causes upgrades to disable the EnableVSSBackup setting. By default, EnableVSSBackup is enabled (value set to 1) and the upgrade sets its value to 0. Windows VSS backups taken with this setting disabled may contain invalid CACHE.DAT files.
This problem is limited to Windows platforms on the following versions:
The defect only occurs if you are upgrading to a version listed above. Once you have upgraded to an affected version, you must manually enable the setting; otherwise, it will be disabled on future upgrades, even when upgrading to versions containing the correction.
For customers using Windows VSS backups, InterSystems recommends enabling this setting on any 2018.1 instances of Caché or Ensemble. Once you have enabled the setting, future upgrades (including to affected versions) will preserve its value.
Preview releases are now available for the 2019.3 version of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health!
Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The version number for these releases is 2019.3.0.302.0
Public announcements will be made shortly, with separate announcements for each product.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.3 is a CD (continuous delivery) release of InterSystems IRIS. It has many new capabilities including:
Continuous Delivery Releases of InterSystems IRIS
Node-level Architecture for Sharding and SQL Support
Infrastructure and Cloud Deployment Improvements
Port Authority for Monitoring Port Usage in Interoperability Productions
X12 Element Validation in Interoperability Productions
The Atelier team is excited to announce the promotion of Atelier 1.3.144 to the beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This new release contains two major enhancements - a new error message for incompatible encoding schemes and an improved parser. Please head to the Release Notes to learn more.
For the best upgrade experience, InterSystems suggests that you install Eclipse Photon (4.8) fresh before installing Atelier 1.3. Find out how here.
As always, we look forward to your feedback!
The 2019.2 version of InterSystems IRIS Studio is now Generally Available!
InterSystems IRIS Studio 2019.2 is the first release of our cross-product Studio development tool. It can connect to InterSystems IRIS servers and also to Caché/Ensemble servers, and behaves appropriately for each. This helps developers that want to work across both sets of products as well as those that want do develop against containerized IRIS using Studio.
IRIS Studio is a separate download that runs on Microsoft Windows (Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows 10 for x86-64).
InterSystems has corrected a memory leak in applications that pass by reference to a formal parameter that accepts a variable number of arguments.
This problem exists for:
If this defect occurs, the process partition will eventually be exhausted, resulting in a <STORE> error.
The 2019.2 version of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is now Generally Available!
Container images for InterSystems IRIS are available via the WRC's download site.
The build number for these releases is 2019.2.0.107.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.2 is the first CD (continuous delivery) release of InterSystems IRIS. It has many new capabilities including:
The 2019.2 version of InterSystems IRIS for Health is now Generally Available!
Container images for IRIS for Health are available via the WRC's download site. The build number for these releases is 2019.2.0.107.0.
InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.2 is the first CD (continuous delivery) release of IRIS for Health. It has many new capabilities including:
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in application data integrity issues following an abnormal shutdown.
This problem exists for:
The defect breaks the journal sync guarantee that all updates in the journal buffer have been written to the journal file. The failure is silent: it does not generate an error message and there is no entry about it in any log file.
Atelier has reached a threshold of feature completeness. Atelier 1.3 which is currently in flight will mainly focus on supporting the latest release of Eclipse Photon. After release, Atelier and Studio will continue to receive critical software corrections.
The preview release of InterSystems IRIS 2019.2 is now available - give it a try!
Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2019.2.0.100.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.2 is the first CD (continuous delivery) release of InterSystems IRIS. It has many new capabilities including:
Hi Community!
We're pleased to announce that that InterSystems IRIS Community Edition is available on the Docker Store! InterSystems IRIS Community Edition is the no-cost developer edition designed to lower the barriers to entry to get started with IRIS. Now that it is listed on the Docker Store, running an IRIS Community instance is as easy as -
docker run -d -p 52773:52773 store/intersystems/iris:2019.1.0.511.0-community
For more on running IRIS in containers check out our Documentation or one of the many Community posts on the topic!
The preview release of IRIS for Health 2019.2 is now available - give it a try!
Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2019.2.0.100.0.
InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.2 is the first CD (continuous delivery) release of IRIS for Health. It has many new capabilities including:
We are pleased to announce the availability of HealthShare 2019.1.
The 2019.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect is now Generally Available!
Kits and container images are available via the WRC download site
The build number for these releases is 2019.1.0.510.0.18883
Health Connect 2019.1 includes many new features and capabilities, most notably:
These are detailed in the documentation and release notes for Health Connect
Upgrades - Health Connect 2019.
The 2019.1 version of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is now Generally Available!
Kits and container images are available via the WRC download site
The build number for these releases is 2019.1.0.510.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.1 provides the following new capabilities:
The 2019.1 version of InterSystems IRIS for Health is now Generally Available!
Kits and container images are available via the WRC download site
The build number for these releases is 2019.1.0.510.0.
IRIS for Health 2019.1 provides the following new capabilities:
Starting with 2017.1, InterSystems is adding Ubuntu (64-bit) as a third linux server platform. Prior to 2017.1 Ubuntu was already available as a development platform and customers could use InterSystems distributions build for SUSE to run on Ubuntu. As a result there are a few license key implications for 64-bit linux versions starting with Caché and Ensemble 2017.
Caché 2018.1.2 and Ensemble 2018.1.2 maintenance releases are now available.
Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.
For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the release notes.
This release adds support for Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows Server 2019.1 operating systems. You can see the details of all supported platforms inthis Supported Platforms document.
The build corresponding to this release is 2018.1.2.309.0
March 14, 2019 – Alert: Data Integrity Issue with Mirror Database Catchup
InterSystems has corrected a defect in our mirroring technology that can result in inconsistency between mirrored databases. This defect exists for currently released Caché and Ensemble versions beginning with 2017.2 and for InterSystems IRIS Data Platform version 2018.1.
When the issue occurs, some journal updates are not applied to a mirrored database on the backup mirror member or an async member that is being caught up.